Associations to the word «Shopworn»
Noun
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Wiktionary
SHOPWORN, adjective. Used, as a sample item in a retail store
SHOPWORN, adjective. Not fresh; tired or cliché
SHOPWORN, adjective. Faded
Dictionary definition
SHOPWORN, adjective. Worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price".
SHOPWORN, adjective. Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.